About Us

IMPACT Mentoring is a program of IMPACT Family Counseling. IMPACT Family Counseling has provided professional counseling services to “at-risk” youth and their families in Birmingham, Alabama since 1991. Birmingham is in Jefferson County. IMPACT was a grass roots initiative founded in 1991 by John A. Williamson and Molton C. Williams to intervene and prevent youth from entering a life of crime.

The founders created IMPACT after insight they gained while visiting inmates in a nearby prison. They were inspired to help troubled youth by what they heard from the inmates, many who were parents. Those incarcerated parents said they were concerned because their children back home were following in their footsteps and getting into trouble with the law. This epiphany led Mr. Williamson and Mr. Williams to come up with a solution to help break the cycle.

The vision that created IMPACT Family Counseling and the services that have been provided since its inception makes IMPACT uniquely suited to administer a mentoring program for children impacted by incarceration and new mothers.